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Outdated ICANN Section Domains No Longer Associated with Respective Registries #2199
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@groundcat I am friends with .NA and reached out by private email (sorry, won't share) but got the following response from them about the structure of "official" subdomains underneath .NA Here is the list he provided me: na They actually asked if we would purge the balance of them - I will note this in #2198 |
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I see two problems here:
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Moving the main discussion regarding the Unusual Registrations of Outdated ICANN Section Domains by China-Based Entity on the PSL topic here as a GitHub issue, rather than a single large PR. This way, we can break down the entries into smaller PRs for easier handling, while keeping central discussions here.
Given the number of domains affected and the fact that this issue spans multiple ccTLD registries/blocks, I plan to create individual PRs (similar to what we’ve done before) — maybe one PR per ccTLD block. That way, we can systematically assess and review the changes more clearly (#2198 (review)), and focus on reviewing specific entries to avoid mistakenly removing any (to review for any active usage of these domains as @wdhdev said #2198 (comment) )
It appears that an unknown entity, likely based in China, is registering outdated ICANN section domains from the Public Suffix List. These registrations are being handled by "Asia Domain Name Registration Company Limited" based in Macau, and they are using a China-based DNS hosting service dnspod.com.
It's quite questionable about the legitimacy of these registrations, especially given that these ccTLDs (country code top-level domains) should not typically be relying on a China-based DNS provider for their operations.
Impacted Suffixes with Available Records
presse.ci
andmd.ci
, other ccTLD stubs not associated w respective registry #2198presse.ci WHOIS Data
presse.ci
andmd.ci
, other ccTLD stubs not associated w respective registry #2198md.ci WHOIS Data
museum.mw
#2203museum.mw WHOIS Data
Shared Traits:
4.
ne.pw
ne.pw
#2200The domain
ne.pw
is being advertised and possibly sold on the website https://www.macau[.]net by "Asia Domain Name Registration Company Limited." However, they do not appear to be an authorized registrar for.pw
domains, and the advertising on their website is somewhat misleading.Other (Possibly) Impacted Suffixes Without Available WHOIS Records
For other domains:
pro.na
name.na
mobi.na
I'm not able to retrieve WHOIS records for these domains, but still, the use of the same China-based DNS hosting provider, dnspod.com, is unusual for these ccTLDs, which are region-specific, to operate using a China-based DNS service, as it doesn't align with their expected geographic and technical infrastructure needs.
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